Whose story is it? Personalizing story generation by inferring author styles

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13028v1
• Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:45:41 GMT
• Title: Whose story is it? Personalizing story generation by inferring author styles
• Authors: Nischal Ashok Kumar, Chau Minh Pham, Mohit Iyyer, Andrew Lan,
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel two-stage pipeline for personalized story generation. Our approach infers an author's implicit story-writing characteristics from their past work and organizes them into an Author Writing Sheet. The second stage uses this sheet to simulate the author's persona through tailored persona descriptions and personalized story writing rules.
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• Abstract: Personalization has become essential for improving user experience in interactive writing and educational applications, yet its potential in story generation remains largely unexplored. In this work, we propose a novel two-stage pipeline for personalized story generation. Our approach first infers an author's implicit story-writing characteristics from their past work and organizes them into an Author Writing Sheet, inspired by narrative theory. The second stage uses this sheet to simulate the author's persona through tailored persona descriptions and personalized story writing rules. To enable and validate our approach, we construct Mythos, a dataset of 590 stories from 64 authors across five distinct sources that reflect diverse story-writing settings. A head-to-head comparison with a non-personalized baseline demonstrates our pipeline's effectiveness in generating high-quality personalized stories. Our personalized stories achieve a 75 percent win rate (versus 14 percent for the baseline and 11 percent ties) in capturing authors' writing style based on their past works. Human evaluation highlights the high quality of our Author Writing Sheet and provides valuable insights into the personalized story generation task. Notable takeaways are that writings from certain sources, such as Reddit, are easier to personalize than others, like AO3, while narrative aspects, like Creativity and Language Use, are easier to personalize than others, like Plot.

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